I recently upgraded to VCarve Pro on the 10 th of this month. I use the X-Carve inch post processor and send it to the xcarve with Pic Sender 3.3.5 Im using the 1.1g grbl when i start the carve it stops and i get “Grbl detected an error and cannot continue” thru pic sender it gives me a message error 33
if a gcode error it is either on, or before , Line22. It also gives me the gcode line G2X7 .8012Y2.818210.095J-0.0006. Any help will be great.
Here are the 1st 23lines of g code For Vcarving letters
I don’t know what Picsender does with toolchanges (M6). Do you know how to add Post Processors?
The mm one will probably work, though.
Like I said, they jacked them up.
Do you save toolpaths for one tool at a time? If so, the grbl versions I linked will work.
If you use a sender that allows you to use tool changes, they’ll also work.
I had a problem with VCarve 10.5 Pro and talked with Vectric. They think the problem is that V10.5 supports arcs, which Grbl 1.1 apparently also supports. Apparently Easel doesn’t supports arcs, or at least not in they way they thought it did.
Vectric sent me an updated XCarve driver that seems to have fixed the problem. I’m at work right now and was able to upload VCarve Pro 10.5 g code into Easel, but I’ll have go home to be sure it works on the XCarve.
I’ve attached the driver they sent me. The instructions in the email are:
Please copy the file to the “PostP” folder of VCarve Pro.
(Or to the “My_PostP” folder if you have copied any post processors to this folder in the past).
This can be located by starting VCarve Pro, from the main menu bar, please click “File > Open Application Data Folder > PostP” (Or “My_PostP”).
Once you have copied the new post processor, exit the application and restart it. The new post processor will be labelled as "X-Carve (inch) ( .gcode)".*
If you’re using Easel to send, you can’t use arcs, correct.
Did their new X-carve post processor use arcs? They really messed that up… This has been an issue everywhere! Even for senders that can handle arcs (everything but Easel?), their new ones aren’t working because of a lack of precision in their arc calculations.
I’m not sure. I know that drivers exist and basically what they do, but that’s about it. The one they sent me seems to work. I tried it on my laptop and Easel was able to import the g code. I’ll need to try it on my XCarve this evening, though.
It’ll work. The issue you had before was the arc calculation. That one has arcs removed. There was another bug reported with the new post processors and ramping. Check your toolpaths before you run the job.